MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Beforo Sir. W. G. Eiddoll, S.M.) NEIGHBOURS IN CONFLICT. •\BT TACT THEY COULD AVOID ONE ANOTHEU." Lilian Minnie Council made an appiic.v tiou for sureties of the peaco against Ethel Francis Love. Mr. P. AY. Jackson appeared lor .Mrs. Love, and Mr. L. K. Li.v lor Mrs. Council, lhe parties ■ire residents of Melrose, and had been before "his Worship heiore, when they woro both fined. Mrs. Council alleged that since then she had been repeatedly threatened, and hence tho action in Lviiience as lo alloyed altercation and assault was given. .\lr. Jackson questioned Mrs. Council respecting an encounter in Houghton (bay Komi. „., ~, ~ T Mr. Jackson: Lid you hit Mrs. Love on the noser—"ilea." , Then, as ft matter ot tact, you attacked Mrs. Love?—".No, I was carrying a jug of milk, and when I put the jug dov.ii to delend myself she hit 1110 with a stick." Mrs. Love denied the allegation of assaults and threat's. She alleged that Mrs. Council had called her names, set a dog un to her, and had struck her. His Worship remarked that the parties had been before the Court before and were not' on good terms. 13y tact they could avoid one another. He considered (from the history of the case, as well as from tho evidence) that the defendant should be bound over to keep the peace for six months. If the complainant interfered with the defendant, the latter could bring a similar action.